Arabic Domains Available

"The three new top-level domains are السعودية. (“Al-Saudiah”), امارات. ( “Emarat”) and مصر. (“Misr”). All three are Arabic script domains, and will enable domain names written fully right-to-left."

Oddly enough, it is not Chinese or Japanese like I would have imagined.

Source: http://blog.icann.org/2010/05/idn-cctlds/

Bigwebmaster

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That is very interesting news. I remember hearing awhile back that something like this would eventually be happening, although, like you said I thought it would have been Chinese or Japanese TLDs first.

joebert

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Arabic sort of makes sense to me. When I look around at programming, design, etc tools a lot of times I see something special for Arabic language users.

I need to find out how you say "oil" in Arabic, and then write a script that registers everything with that set of characters in it.

George L.

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3+ Months Ago

Actually, what's the purpose of having Arabian domain names ?

I really don't understand.

ATNO/TW

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Well most likely George it's because over one fourth of the world's population is Muslim, which in most cases means they probably speak or read and write Arabic.

And Joe I could probably ask my daughter on "oil". She translates Arabic for the Navy.

//for the record it's نفط

Kind or odd...After I pasted that I realized since arabic is right to left I couldn't add anything on that line after it and had to be to the left of it to hit enter to line feed. lol Languages are odd things.

f-burahmah

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That's right ATNO/TW .. and there's one more thing that is most of the arabian people cant speak or write in english but they are highly educated ..